Strip marking and measuring machine



MayLzs, 1923; 1,456,763

F. J. CHAPMAN ET AL STRIP lMARKING AND MEASURING'MACHIE Filed NOV. 13 1922 2 Sheets-Sheet l e,. :n l ,gnou/mind /f/'QAA//rf CHAPMAN .May 29, 1923.

- 1,456,763 F. J. CHAPMAN E'r AL i v sTfIP MARKINQ AND MEAsuRING MACHINE Filed Nov. 1s. 1.922* 2 sheets-sht 2 ya 3 nvm/How have been devised for Patented May Z9, 1923.

FRANK J. CHAPMAN ANI)` JANTES F. BRENNAN, OF

Pa'rEasoiv,kk VNEW JERSEY.` j

STRIP MARKING AND MEASURING MACHINE.

Application filed November To all whom t may concern -f Be it known that'we,'FR.-\N1i J. @Harman and JAMES F. BRENXAN, citizens of the United States, residing at Paterson, in the county oi Fassaie and State of New Jersey, have invented certain new and useful lmprovements in Strip h/larking and Measuring Machines; and we do declare the following to be a full, clear, andexact description ot the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it lappertains to make and use the same.

Ourinvention relates to improvements in machines for measuring and marking strips of paper or other sheet material at predetermined intervals, the present machinebeing designed primarily for measuring and marking strips of paper unwound Yfrom a.,

roll and adapted to later be split into nar# rower lstrips to be wrapped with ribbon upon spools. Thus, it may ybe, determined by glancing at the strip ot paper wound with the ribbon, the number ot yards of the latter upon the spool. c

`We are aware that numerous machines obtaining the same general results as ours, but it is one object of the present invention to generally improve and simplify the construction of such machines.

In carrying out our invention, we make use of a pair of driven chains having a marking bar for marking the sheet of paper and another object is to provide ymeans for locking the chains against movement to give the marking bar its proper starting point by permitting sliding of the paper without moving the chains, until a manually applied mark on the paper may be alined with said ar. Y

With the foregoing and other object in view, the invention resides in the novel subject matter hereinafter described and elaimed, the description being supplemented by the accompanying drawings.

Figure 1 is a perspective view of a machine constructed in accordance with our invention.'

Figure 2 is a side elevation.

Figure 3 is a view similar to Fig. 2 but illustrating a different form of construction.

Figure 4 is an elevation of the manually operated marker used to apply the first mark to the sheet.

In the drawings above brieily described,v

the frame of the machine is shown composed 13, 1922.. seriaim. 600,664.

of two upright standards 1 having suitable artnr rrr-cs.

feet l2 secured to the-floorV or other suitable support, said standards being -connected with eachother at their upper and lower ends by horizontal bars 3 and 4 respectively.

Mounted between the lower portions of the standards l, is a horizontal platen roller 5 around which the strip of material to be Y.

marked, is trained as indicated in Figs. k,2 and 3, a suitable guide roller' and spring pressed yroller 6il being-connected with the4 standards 1 by arms 7 and 7a to hold the strip ofmaterial tightly upon thel platen roller 5. This roller 5 isfvprovided with journals 8 passing rotatably through bearing openings in the standards 1 and pro-y vided on their outer ends with spur gears 9. These gears meshwith similar gears 10 von the. outer endsl of separate short` shal'ts 11 which also passrotatably through the standf ards 1, the .inner endsot the shaits 11-being equipped with sprockets 12. `Other 'sprockets 13 are disposed at the upper ends ofthe standards. 1 and the shafts 14 of these Sprockets are by y tically in slots l15 in the standards 1. 'A pair of endless chains 16 are trained around the upper and lower sprockets and are con'- nected by a horizontal marking bar 17 which preference adjustable veris inked by contact with an inking roller 18y which rotates within a horizontal ink pan 19. This pan is provided with arms 20 sef cured to the standards 1 by bolts or the like 21 which preferably pass through slots 22 in said standards so that .the pan 19 and the roller 18 vcnvried thereby, Vmay beadjusted so as'to cause properv contact of the roller with the bar 17. j f

`The chains 16 may only be of suiiicient length to pass around the sprockets 12 and 13 as shown in Figs. 1 and 2, or if a greater space is desired between By means of the marking bar' 17av show1k1,-.

in Fig. 4, the first mark is applied tothe sheet. This mark is then alinedv with the marking bar 17 by sliding the paper around the marksv printed v on the strip ot material bythe bar 17, the.

the rollers to the proper extent, the bar be- 'j ing then held against movement by a sliding bolt 25 carried by one of the standards, for psanssage through a link of one of the chains.

en the mark is alined with the marking j j bar 1T and the peper is pulled around the roller 5, the chains are driven to cause bar 17 to measure ofi the sheet into predetermined iengthsand mark the saine, it beingl of course understood that the holt is released after initiellysetting the machine.

As excellent results ma7 be obtained troni the details disclosed, 'they are preteiehl;7 followed, but within the scope ot the invention' as claimed, numerous ininor changes may be made.

We claim:

l. strip ineesurinn and marking device comprising an upright traine7 a roller journalled horizontally in said 'freine to be rotated by engagement with e strip of Inaiteriel to he iarked, a lower pair of axially alined sprockets mounted on said traine adjacent to and having' driving connections with the ends ot seid roller, en upper )zur ot axially alined sproolrets mounted on said traine, a peir of chains trained around said upper and lower sprockets, ay strip marking' ber extending,Y between and secured to Said Chains, and means 'for inliing` said bar.

2. A strip measuring and marking' device comprising a pair of spaced upriffht standards7 a roller 'extending horizonaily ybetween the lower end portions of seid standards and having journals extending wreef/ee through the latter, gears on said journals et the outer sides ot said standards, separate shetts passiing` rotatably through said standards end having gears on their outer ends in rnesh with the first nained gears, sprockets on the inner ends oit said shetts, other eX- iallr elined sprockets at the upper ends ot' seid standardschains trained around the four sprockets, and having vertical reaches extending, between the upper and lower sprockets, a hui' extending horizontal tween seid chains for marking a strip oit material drawn around said rolier7 an inl: pan extending; between and mounted on said standards, and an ink roller in said pan in position to he struck by said har.

3. A. strip measuring and inzirkingg; device comprising e freine, e roller thereon to be rotated hy engagement Vwith e strip of sheet material, a pair of endless chains mounted on said traine and driven by seid roller, e inariingjv har carried by said cha-ins, and nieens on the ''raene for engaging one chain and holding; the marking her against nioie nient when alining e niark on the strip therewith.

in testimony whereof we have hereunto affixed our signatures.

FRANIZJ.y CHAPMAN, JAMES F. BRENNAN.

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